Isaiah
Isaiah 18:1 - 18:7
pages 1-6.
The last
Chapter of Isaiah 17, verses 13 and 14, are about the time of God's
consuming fire burning Lucifer's future false world kingdom as 'chaff'
before a 'whirlwind'. That event is Christ's Second Advent (coming), to earth,
on the 'last trump'. All will be
changed into the spiritual body at the 'twinkling of an eye' (I Cor.15:52; 2
Thess.2:8). As the last Chapter of Isaiah 17 was prophecy which includes
Ephraim, this Chapter 18 is going to continue that Message of Christ's
return as KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Moreover,
Isaiah 18 will tell us about the 'gathering' of God's dispersed elect from all
four corners of the earth, those of both the 'house of Judah', and the 'house
of Israel' (Ten Tribes under Ephraim), and the Gentiles of
...
Rev.7:9: After this I beheld, and lo. A great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands:
We ask a Word of Wisdom from our
Father in Christ Jesus' Name, Amen.
Isa 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
This word 'beyond'
is the Hebrew word 'Eber'
and is from the root 'abar',
meaning 'to cross over; used very widely of any
transition' (Strong's nos. 5674; 5676).
That word 'Eber'
is where the name Hebrew was derived from. And Eber
was ancestor to Abraham and Christ.
Luke 3:35: as
'Heber': Which was the son of Saruch,
which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of HEBER,
which was the son of Sala.
Gen.10:31: These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Thus this 'beyond'
reference to Eber in this verse of Isaiah 18:1 represents God's People of 'election',
that of 'seed', and that of 'Grace',
as all believers on Christ as Saviour. In as much as the future everlasting Kingdom of God is
spiritual, this election includes the Gentile believers also.
This Truth will become more apparent as we continue in this Chapter. Understanding
the Lost Ten Tribes
study will help greatly here also.
Woe to the land shadowing with
wings, is talking about guess who; what nation on
earth pioneered and developed aviation to its state today? The United States
of America, (Manasseh) as the founders of the United States branched off
and separated from Ephraim (Great Britain and Europe), they represent Ephraim's elder brother Manasseh,
i.e. the 'thirteenth' tribe of Israel. And remember, this Message of the
past Chapter was to Syria and to Ephraim.
Isa 18:2 That
sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, saying, "Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!"
Ephraim (Great Britain) and Manasseh (United States) were
first to send 'ambassadors' by steam ship, symbolic of 'vessels
of bulrushes', across the seas to
other nations. The word 'scattered'
is 'mashak'
in the Hebrew meaning 'to draw,
used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound,
to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall)'
(Strong's no. 4900). And 'peeled'
is 'mowrat' meaning 'scoured,
polished,